{"id":14591,"date":"2014-07-04T16:32:56","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T14:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14591"},"modified":"2014-07-04T16:32:56","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T14:32:56","slug":"african-americans-deserve-reparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14591","title":{"rendered":"African-Americans deserve reparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2014\/06\/27\/opinion\/liu-reparations-slavery\/\">African-Americans deserve reparations<\/a>. Discuss.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of reparations \u2014 that the descendants of slaves should be compensated by the national government for the wrongs and the legacy of slavery \u2014 has always been controversial.<\/p>\n<p>When Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic wrote the June cover story, \u201cThe Case for Reparations,\u201d he set a traffic record for the magazine\u2019s website. He provoked responses from across the political and ethnic spectrum. Some of his critics did him the courtesy of reading the entire 16,000-word piece. Others, particularly in the Twittersphere, reacted viscerally to the headline and to reactions to the headline.<\/p>\n<p>Through many of these responses, whether thoughtful or tossed-off, there\u2019s been a certain thread of uneasiness; a reflexive move to find reasons why reparation couldn\u2019t be done or why it wouldn\u2019t be workable or fair.<\/p>\n<p>To me, this reflex is as interesting as the original argument. And it suggests that before America could ever actually do reparations, America would have to first be able to imagine the necessity of reparations. The greatest obstacle to considering reparation isn\u2019t practicality; it\u2019s a dearth of moral imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Source: CNN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African-Americans deserve reparations. Discuss. The idea of reparations \u2014 that the descendants of slaves should be compensated by the national government for the wrongs and the legacy of slavery \u2014 has always been controversial. When Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic wrote the June cover story, \u201cThe Case for Reparations,\u201d he set a traffic record for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14591\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;African-Americans deserve reparations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[1684,156,1102,9400,2532],"class_list":["post-14591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-african-americans","tag-blacks","tag-cnn","tag-reparations","tag-slavery"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14592,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14591\/revisions\/14592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}